Background: Several herbs are currently used to mitigate the methane emission in livestock. The shikakai pods (Acacia concinna) nutritional composition, phytochemical and mitigation potential was evaluated by vitro. Methods: crude protein, fibre, ether extract, total ash nitrogen free extract of were evaluated. “phytochemical” screening qualitatively assessed water, methanol ethanol extracts. F...

background & aim: herbal extracts contain the important useful natural compounds. in the food industry are great important due to properties flavoring and aroma's, as well as delaying the corruption and are widely used as condiments, flavorings, preservatives and antioxidants. experimental: the extract of tragopogon graminifolius was added to milk prepared for yogurt production before pack...

to express their ideas, feeling, and imagination, a large number of ancient arab poets employed terminologies current in that period, especially those related to spices and herbals and their advantages. their main impetus came from their investigative instinct as well as their religious beliefs that emphasize the importance of herbals for their medical and nutritional benefits. hence, such subj...

Herbs and herbal extracts have been used for thousands of years in curing and treating diseases in both human and animals. Records have shown that animals were fed herbs and spices to cure certain diseases more than 5000 years ago. The Indian ayurvedic and Chinese medicine used herbs and spices to enhance health and also treat diseases. Common spices such as tumeric, ginger and garlic have been...

Use and opinion of herbs among medical students of Imo State University Nigeria was assessed. Information on herb use, indication and opinion from returned self-administered questionnaire was analyzed. A total of 114 students (91.2%) of 125 responded. 32 (28.1%) students had used herbs before, a significant proportion being males (OR 3.7). Herbal tea was the most popular herb used; maintaining ...

The object of this study was to identify the major active ingredients of the Chinese Traditional Medicine Jiang-Zhi-Ning (JZN) based on the high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) profiles of plasma samples obtained from beagle dogs at different times after intragastric administration of JZN, crude JZN extracts, different extracted fractions, different subfractions of the active fraction ...

Herbs and spices have been traditionally used for prevention and cure of many diseases. Hence, the present study was aimed to investigate the effects of aqueous and alcoholic extract of four different spices (asafoetida, ginger, cinnamon and cardamom) extracts on human breast adenocarcinoma cell line (MCF) and HEP-G2 cancer cell lines through in-vitro growth inhibitory assay. Both aqueous and a...

Processing of Chinese Materia Medica (CMM) is a pharmaceutical technique to fulfill the different requirements of therapy, dispensing and making preparations according to traditional Chinese medicine theory. The aims of processing are to enhance the efficacy and/or reduce the toxicity of crude drugs. Those processed products are named as decoction pieces, which are used in clinics. Therefore, t...

Cardiovascular diseases are increasingly becoming one of the leading diseases causing morbidity and mortality in Uganda. Ethnographic evidence suggests that these diseases are often first managed by indigenous and related herbs before patients are referred for allopathic forms of management. One such herb of interest is Nerium oleander. Therefore the crude ethanolic extracts of the dried leaves...

The moisture content present in human skin makes it look young and the use of moisturizer results in fastening the moisture with a surface film of oil. Acne vulgaris is one of the most commonly seen diseases among the youth. The present study is focused on the use of herbs as moisturizer for acne treatment. The anti-acne moisturizer was formulated from herbal crude extracts and investigated the...